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Politico:
Biden hosts Manchin in Delaware at critical juncture  —  President Joe Biden hosted Sen. Joe Manchin in Delaware on Sunday as the two sought to finalize an agreement on Biden's domestic agenda, according to multiple people familiar with the meeting.  —  The president huddled …
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
True conservatives should support filibuster reform
Discussion: USA Today, Bloomberg and Fox News
Politico:
Dems weigh ditching Medicare expansion and paid leave in eleventh hour of social spending talks
Discussion: Common Dreams
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Schumer, Manchin to meet with Biden in Delaware: report
Discussion: Politico, CBS News and The Guardian
Sarah Maslin Nir / New York Times:
Their Jobs Made Them Get Vaccinated.  They Refused.  —  The willingness of some workers to give up their livelihoods helps explain the country's struggle to reach herd immunity.  —  Under the threat of losing their jobs, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers finally got a Covid-19 vaccine.
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Why is Trump running for president again?  To stay out of jail  —  Throughout his epic, scandal-ridden career, Donald Trump has compiled an astonishing record of impunity, constantly staying one jump ahead of prosecutors, plaintiffs and creditors.  —  He is the only president to be impeached twice …
Discussion: Raw Story
Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
The soul-crushing fight of parents battling right-wing COVID nihilism  —  If you had told me two years ago that there would be a movement of angry parents, however small, yawping against basic measures to stop their kids from getting sick and dying with the full backing of a major political party, I wouldn't have believed it.
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
WATCH: Jake Tapper Emphatically Calls Out Republicans for ‘Violations of Basic Decency’ After Mocking Alec Baldwin's Movie Set Shooting  —  CNN's Jake Tapper blasted Republicans for their joyful exploitation of the tragic shooting incident involving Alec Baldwin on the set of the film, Rust.
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Democrats' problem is not focusing on issues most vital to independents, 2 prominent pollsters say  —  Joel Benenson has a feeling of deja vu watching President Biden's agenda grind into a long, drawn-out negotiation as middle-of-the-road voters recoil at the process taking place in Congress.
Tech Transparency Project:
YouTube's Filter Bubble Problem is Worse for Fox News Viewers  —  New TTP research shows how YouTube's recommendation algorithm locks users into ideological echo chambers.  It's more intense for people who watch Fox News.  —  YouTube's recommendation algorithm pushes users …
Insider:
The January 6 insurrection, in all its heart-pounding detail, from 34 people who lived through it … “We have the building!”  Those words sent “a wave of terror” through congressional staffer Jay Rupert as he barricaded himself in his House office on January 6 while an angry pro-Trump mob breached security and ransacked the building.
Washington Post:
Sen. Joe Manchin wants to restrict who gets the child tax credit.  These West Virginians may pay the price if he gets his way.  —  Manchin supports new requirements for the expanded child tax credit that would likely end the benefit for thousands of families in his state.
Arizona Republic:
Grant Woods, former Arizona attorney general, dies at 67  —  Craig Harris Maria PollettaArizona Republic  —  Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, the prosecutor and politician who frequently broke with his longtime party to support Democratic candidates and causes, died Saturday from a heart attack.
Discussion: The Wrap and WTOP
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KASW-TV:
Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods dies at 67
Discussion: The Hill
Courtland Jeffrey / KNXV:
Grant Woods, former Arizona Attorney General, has died unexpectedly at age 67
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:
A C.I.A. Fighter, a Somali Bomb Maker, and a Faltering Shadow War  —  The hunt for an elusive Somali militant illustrates why Al Shabab, despite a decade of American covert action, are at their strongest in years.  —  MOGADISHU, Somalia — The C.I.A. convoy rolled out of Mogadishu in the dead of night …
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
The Economy, Biden's Approval, and How to Fight Back  —  An unhappy electorate is taking its anger out on the Democrats, but Republicans are quite vulnerable on the economy  —  There is no political saying more trite — or more accurate — than James Carville's famous aphorism from the 1992 campaign “It's the economy, stupid.”
Discussion: RedState and Second Nexus
Natasha Anderson / Daily Mail:
‘Cruel’ Fauci is condemned for ‘paying Tunisian research lab $375,800 in taxpayer funds to clamp heads of de-barked beagle puppies in cages filled with flesh-eating flies that ate them alive’  — A group of 24 bi-partisan lawmakers are demanding answers from Dr. Anthony Fauci after a nonprofit claims …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: Facebook exec warns of “more bad headlines”  —  In a post to staffers Saturday obtained by Axios, Facebook VP of global affairs Nick Clegg warned the company that worse coverage could be on the way: “We need to steel ourselves for more bad headlines in the coming days, I'm afraid.”
CNN:
Trump pick's messy personal life worries Senate Republicans desperate to hold on to Pennsylvania seat  —  (CNN)Sean Parnell may have the backing of former President Donald Trump, but the Pennsylvania Republican also has significant personal baggage that is raising concerns about the GOP's ability …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
How Misinformation Threatened a Montana National Heritage Area  —  Civic boosters in central Montana hoped for some federal money to promote tourism.  A disinformation campaign got in the way.  —  GREAT FALLS, Mont. — In the summer of 2020, as pandemic shutdowns closed businesses …
Christine Jordan Sexton / Florida Politics:
Senate President blasts Florida Surgeon General for his ‘unprofessional’ actions  —  Simpson sent a memo to all members and Senate staff.  —  Senate President Wilton Simpson late Saturday sharply criticized a top official in the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis for failing to adhere …
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Raw Story
American Greatness:
The Farce of American Despotism  —  The Soviets had the gulag, we have “cancel culture” in our universities and a brittle obsession with race and weirdo sexuality everywhere.  —  Reflecting on Joe Biden's disastrous “town hall” with Anderson Cooper on Thursday, The Spectator's Dominic Green asks …
Discussion: Instapundit
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Democrats overplaying the Trump card In Virginia governor's race  —  Terry McAuliffe can't stop talking about the former president, even though many Virginia voters have moved on.  —  Terry McAuliffe's campaign strategy in the Virginia governor's race has been to relentlessly link his opponent …
Tampa Bay Times:
Can Florida quit OSHA over vaccines?  Top GOP lawmakers will try  —  Former officials with the federal agency say it wouldn't lessen the any burden supposedly brought about by federal regulations.  —  TALLAHASSEE — Hours after Thursday's unexpected request by Gov. Ron DeSantis for lawmakers …
Ryan Grim / Bad News:
Kyrsten Sinema's long march through the institutions  —  So Kyrsten Sinema is now pushing an income tax on billionaires.  —  It's fun to think that Sinema has actually never left the days when she was an anarcho-curious, black bloc protester committed to tearing down the power structure …
Discussion: Mediaite
Washington Post:
How Facebook neglected the rest of the world, fueling hate speech and violence in India … In February 2019, not long before India's general election, a pair of Facebook employees set up a dummy account to better understand the experience of a new user in the company's largest market.
Washington Examiner:
Biden is driving families apart  —  The fates of families were dividing along demographic lines even before the COVID pandemic made the division worse.  That is the core finding of a new study this week by the American Enterprise Institute, the Institute for Family Studies, and Brigham Young University's Wheatley Institute.
Pamela K. Browne / Washington Examiner:
FBI incompetence let Anwar al Awlaki slip away, say retired investigators  —  More than 20 years after 9/11, two key investigators who made the case their lives' work have revealed they are still haunted by the fact that the FBI let the terrorists' spiritual adviser slip away, only to inspire more deadly attacks in the name of Islam.
 
 
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NBC News:
Biden carries Trump's hard line toward Beijing to coming summits
Discussion: Newsbusters
NBC News:
In Germany, global warming is changing more than just the climate. It's changing politics, too.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
U.S. Struggles With Afghan Evacuees Weeded Out, and Now in Limbo
New York Times:
The Global Stakes at Glasgow
Discussion: Japan Times and Daily Kos
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Where Did 7 Million Workers Go?  —  The U.S. economy right now is a little bit like Dune.
Judith Butler / The Guardian:
Why is the idea of ‘gender’ provoking backlash the world over?
Discussion: Althouse
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South China Morning Post:
In Germany, Hamburg is at the heart of a growing dilemma over China
Discussion: Bloomberg
Insider:
Facebook undersea cable project marred by ‘frac outs,’ sinkholes, a drone dispute, and buried broken equipment on the Oregon coast
St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Bannon's subpoena defiance is illegal, yet the ‘law and order’ party defends it
Washington Post:
White supremacists are returning to Charlottesville. But this time, they're on trial.
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Inflation Is the Mother of Big Political Change
New York Post:
Alec Baldwin ignored the No. 1 rule of gun safety: Hollywood weapons expert
Discussion: HotAir and Breitbart
 

 
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